Thesaurus results for HATS

hats

noun

plural of hat

as in caps

a covering for the head usually having a shaped crown in those days, no properly dressed person left home without a hat

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Recent Examples of hats The tenets of what makes the CMA successful really started then, which was leaders coming together to check their competitive hats at the door for the collective good of the association. — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2026 According to the brand, the $58 totes and $98 hats are selling fast, while several other picks throughout the line have already been swooped up by stylish fans. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 These building-block hats can be placed next to one another to create bigger and bigger shapes that also look like the hat. — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026 The image could be found on T-shirts, hats, billboards, beer bottles, Christmas ornaments and even adorned the cover of several books written about the championship season. — Mark Long, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2026 Wearing multiple hats, Paolo Moretti, head of ECAL university’s cinema department, Geneva’s Grütli Cinemas and Fondazione Prada’s Film Fund, will take part in a special conversation. — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026 The rest are just hats and come in various degrees of success. — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026 Hartnett hits d’ose hard Ds with zeal, making every singular verb plural while wearing the hell out of his fisherman’s hats. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2026 And many of the folks who worked on the flick are no longer around, like Doug Kenney, who wore both writing and producing hats. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Almost all Florida seniors will be affected as Medicare Advantage plans pare benefits and raise deductibles, while traditional Medicare sees higher Part D out-of-pocket spending caps and the elimination of $0-premium standalone drug plans.

— Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026
That’s up just 4% since 2021, partly because PJM imposed price caps last year.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of caps

Noun

There was so much color, all these beautiful headdresses, and the male dancers were stomping their legs to mimic the drums.

— Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
He was surrounded by Iranian flags, Egyptian fans donning King Tutankhamun headdresses and people who had made entire outfits out of their nation’s colors — all mixed among Pride flags.

— Sam McDowell July 1, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026

Definition of headdresses

Noun

The milliner’s customers can go green — in every sense — wearing headpieces showcasing the cedar of Lebanon, or the rose of Sharon, a type of hibiscus native to areas of east Asia.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2026
Now, a group of British lawmakers has called on the government to end the use of real bearskins in the ceremonial headpieces worn by the King’s Guard.

— James Frater, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of headpieces

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